Copy-book.



No. 636,432. Patented Nov. 7, I899. E. L. HORNEY.

COPY BOOK.

licntion filed Feb. 21, 189

Attorney UNITED STATES EDWARD LEWIS I-IORNEY, OF CHILLICOTHE, OHIO.

COPY-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 636,432, datedNovember- '7, 1899.

Application filed February 21 1899. Serial No. 706,356. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LEDWARD LEWIS HORNEY, of Ohillicothe, in the county ofRoss and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Copy-Books; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethesame.

My invention relates to an improvement in copy-books and practice-pads,the object being to so arrange a copy-book or practice-pad as to insurethe exact and accurate formation of letters and words by the pupil.

A further object is to provide a copy-book or practice-pad wherein thepupil will be enabled to first be so guided as to produce a fac-' simileof letters and Words, then to reproduce letters and words from a copyand without an absolute guide, and then to reproduce said letters andwords without either copy or guide.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain novel featuresof construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter morefully described, and pointed out in the claims. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a view illustrating myimprovement. Fig. 2 isa view in section of the same, and Fig. 3 is aview of a modification.

A represents my improved copy-book or practice-pad, and it comprises acover 1, a series of sheets or pages of tracing material 2, a series ofunlined pages or leaves 3, having characters, letters, words, andfigures printed or engraved thereon, a series of pages or leaves 4,suitably lined and having characters, letters, words, and figuresprinted or engraved thereon within the large spaces formed between saidlines, and a series of pages or leaves 5, having lines thereon. Thepages or leaves are so arranged in the book or pad that one of eachseries follows in the order above described. By thus arranging theseveral series of leaves a pupil will be, first, enabled by means of thetracing material 2, which rests upon page or leaf 3, to reproduce anexact facsimile of the characters, letters, \words, and figurescontained on saidpage or leaf 3 by tracing the same; secondly, the pupilwill then be enabled to reproduce on the blank lines of the followingpage or leaf the same characters, letters, words, and figures, but froma copy printed or engraved on said page, and, thirdly, the pupil willalso be enabled to reproduce from memory and on the lines of the blankpage 5 the aforesaid characters, letters, words, and figures.

Instead of printing or engraving the set forms on the leaves 3 said setforms may be printed or otherwise formed on the backs or reverse facesof the tracing material,as shown in Fig. 3, and thus dispense with theleaves 3.

In the public schools and other similar institutions Writing is taughtby what is commonly known as the sight and word system, which consists,substantially, in teaching the pupil to writeby the appearance ratherthan by the spelling of the words. This system entails considerablelabor on the teacher in the preparation of forms for each pupil underhis or her charge and consumes considerable time that might be otherwiseemployed, while with my system the labor of preparing forms for eachpupil is avoided and the attendingv labor dispensed with, and at thesame time more accurate results can be obtained through the medium offirst tracing an exact facsimile of the matter to be copied.

While my improved system is specially'designed for copy-books, it isevident that the pages or leaves may be arranged in tablet form and thesaid leaves or pages adapted to be torn off and presented to the teacherfor examination when filled by the pupil; but in any case the variousseries of leaves are bound 7 together.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A copy-book or pad consisting of several series of leaves boundtogether, a leaf of each series of leaves having set forms thereon,another leaf of each series having blank lines, another leaf of eachseries having set forms and blank lines one leaf of each series made oftransparentmaterial to permit the set forms to be traced on the exposedface thereof.

2. A copy-book or pad, comprising several sets of leaves bound togethersuccessively, each set of leaves comprising one having letters, Words orcharacters thereon; another leaf of each series being made of tracingmaterial and "disposed in advance of the leaf having letters, Words orcharacters; a third leaf having letters, words or characters thereon andalso having blank lines, and the fourth leaf of each set having blanklines and Without letters, words or characters.

3. A copy-book or pad comprising a cover, a series of leaves havingguiding-forms thereon, two leaves having blank lines and set forms andblank lines respectively alternating with the first-mentioned leavesthroughout the book or pad and sheets of tracing material locatedthroughoutthe book or pad and disposed over the leaves having theguidingforms thereon, said cover and leaves being bound together.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD LEWIS HORNEY.

\Vitnesses:

EDWARD OBERER, SHERMAN T. LEMLEY.

